1. PASS Community News
April 2013

2. HASSUG SPONSORS… Thanks to Microsoft for meeting facilities!
Thanks to IDERA for food!
Thanks to PASS for website hosting!
Thanks to our Book\Media Sponsors:

3. HASSUG Benefits
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4. Houston Area Group Volunteers Needed
If you’d like to help with a North Houston or South Houston sub-group, please contact to volunteer. If you’d like to help with the Houston BI Chapter, contact Ron Holmes or to volunteer. If you’d like to help with Houston SQLSaturday 2013, please contact to volunteer. We need to find a host location.

5. Speakers needed HASSUG – Next Meetings May 14, 2013: June 11, 2013:
Confio speaker TBD

6. SQLSaturday Events – April/May
Upcoming North America Events
Upcoming International Events
April 13 #211 Chicago, IL
April 20 #201 Orange County, CA
April 27 #193 Phoenix, AZ
April 27 #175 Fargo, ND
April 27 #215 Jacksonville, FL
May 11 #209 Rochester, NY
May 18 #212 Redmond, WA
May 18 #220 Atlanta, GA
April 13 #189 Costa Rica
April 20 #196 Denmark
April 20 #205 Puerto Rico
April 27 #210 Brisbane
May 18 #216 Krasnodar, Russia
May 18 #225 Kosovo
May 23 #208 Riyadh
May 25 #224 Sydney
May 25 #219 Kiev
Visit to register for an event near you!

7. Virtual Chapter Meetings
TOPIC
DBA Fundamentals
April 10 – 1:00 (UTC – 06:00)
Setting up Clustered SQL Servers in a Virtual Environment – presented by Ilya Rubinshteyn
Professional Development
April 10 – Noon (UTC – 05:00)
Killer Presentations - presented by Plamen Ratchev
Performance
April 25 – 1:00pm (UTC – 06:00)
It’s all About the Performance, Right? – presented by David Klee
Azure
April 26 – Noon (UTC – 05:00)
Performance Tuning with Azure SQL Databases – presented by Grant Fritchey
Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters including
Application Development
Azure
Big Data
Book Readers
Business Analytics
Business Intelligence
Data Architecture
DBA
DBA Fundamentals
Education
Healthcare
Master Data\Data Quality
Performance
Oracle
Powershell
Professional Development
Virtualization
Women in Technology
Virtual PASS Portuguese
French (CFSS)
Global Chinese
Global Spanish

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